#megabassines — Public Fediverse posts

While the UN are discussing the worldwide existential crisis about water with droughts and pollution everywhere, yesterday in France happened the biggest protest against megabassins in the countryside. Those bassins are dug to store water pumped up from the underground to irrigate agroindustrial soils in case of droughts (?!). Lots of quite obvious arguments make people mad about them: hydrologic absurdity, inequality...

Some 30k people joined it while the state forbed it. Tens of cops vehicules were mobilized and quickly up to 4k grenades (both explosive and teargas ones) were thrown, rubber bullets were shot. More than 200 people got injured, 3 very badly, 10 got hospitalized, 1 is in between life and death... some cops trucks got burned down and some 20 agents got wounded.

We can't get used to it : the power is complaining again over all the medias against "violent hords of people from the extreme-left", a "rural guerilla"... How fucking hypocrit can a government pushing for a reinforcement of fundamental republican education be also so mad against its people ? The very national anthem's chorus is literally : "to arms citizens, form your battalions, let us march, let an impure blood water our furrows"...

Solidarity with all revolts around the world.

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